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For What is a Scientist Remembered?
Freud and Witmer were contemporaries in the early 1900s. Both emphasized and developed case-study methods applied to people with psychological problems. Both pushed their colleagues to seek new directions and applications in their professions. They also contrasted sharply. Whereas Freud worked with adults and never directly studies or worked with children, Witmer focused his clinical work almost exclusively on children. Freud based his inferences on his clients’ verbal self-reports; Witmer included self-reports but also used more objective medical and psychological testing approaches. Freud never went beyond the clients’ self-reports for any corroborating evidence; Witmer sought information from parents, teachers, and others to provide some degree of external validation for his inferences. Freud worked with individual adults, virtually all of whom were economically well-to-do; Witmer worked with individual children across all social classes. Given the apparent superiority of Witmer’s approach, the final comparison leaves us with a puzzle. Freud’s influence on anthropology, drama, literature, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology, and on popular culture generally has been enormous and sustained; Witmer is ordinarily accorded a footnote here and there. It was Freud’s enormous contribution to theory, and not his prowess in validating that theory with sophisticated research, that made him such a powerful figure. Some of Freud’s inferences were clearly wrong, and he routinely went far beyond the data while developing his theory; but his ideas were stimulating, relevant, and often scientifically testable—even if they were not always right.
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--Unit 1 How to write an argumentative essay?
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--Unit 1 How to Write an Argumentative Essay?
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--Unit 2 How to Paraphrase?
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--Unit 3 How to Write an Essay by Classification?
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--Macrostructure of Academic Lectures
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--Unit 4 Macrostructure of Academic Lecture
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--Video--How plants defend themselves
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--Unit 5 How to Write a Definition?
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--Video--short-term and long-term memory
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--Unit 6 How to Describe a Concept?
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--Video--what is verbal irony?
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-- Unit 7 How to Write an Essay by Comparison and Contrast?
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--Comparison of two scientists
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--How to Raise Questions like Socrates
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--Unit 8 How to Raise Questions like Socrates?
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--Unit 9 How to Write a Cause-and-Effect Essay?
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--Unit 10 How to Present a Graph?
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--Video--how to describe diagrams?
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--Unit 11 Process Writing
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--Sample writing (IELTS writing)
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--Unit 12 Listening Between the Lines
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--Unit 13 How to Write a Summary?
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--Taking Notes in Lecture Listening
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--Unit 14 Taking Notes in Lecture Listening
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--Video--how best listening to lectures
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--Unit 15 A Reading Method--SQ3R
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--Unit 16 How to Distinguish Fact and Opinion?
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--Basic Structure of Academic Lectures
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--Unit 17 Basic Structure of a Research Article
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--How to structure research articles?
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--Unit 18 Citations and References
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--Reference and Citation Format
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--How to Support Your Claim Effectively in Speaking
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--Unit 19 How to Argue Effectively in Speaking
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--Unit 20 Hedging in Academic Writing
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--Three Minute Thesis Presentation
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--Unit 21 Three Minute Thesis Presentation
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--How to Get Topic of Lecture Listening
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--Unit 22 How to Get the Topic in Lecture Listening
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--How to Write a Personal Statement
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--Unit 23 How to Write a Personal Statement
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